Aesthetic Value in Classical AntiquityIneke Sluiter, Ralph M. Rosen How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the value of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ancient values, this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the life without the Muses to the Sublime, and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics. "Aesthetic value in classical antiquity" should be of interest to classicists, cultural and art historians, and philosophers. |
Contents
Chapter One General Introduction | 1 |
Living without the Muses | 15 |
Chapter Three Is the Sublime an Aesthetic Value? | 47 |
The Aesthetics of Nonsense in the Ancient Greek Symposium | 71 |
Chapter Five The Aesthetic Value of Music in Platonic Thought | 113 |
An Objective Aesthetics of Seniors in Platos Laws | 133 |
Performance Pleasure and Value in Aristotles Politics | 159 |
Chapter Eight Audience Poetic Justice and Aesthetic Value in Aristotles Poetics | 183 |
Chapter Twelve Art Aesthetics and the Hero in Vergils Aeneid | 285 |
On Valuing Roman Imperial Architecture | 315 |
Chapter Fourteen Poetry Politics and Pleasure in Quintilian | 345 |
Literary Judgments as Personal Critiques in Roman Satire | 365 |
Chapter Sixteen Captive Audience? The Aesthetics of nefas in Senecan Drama | 393 |
Education in Eros through Aesthetics in Longus Daphnis and Chloe | 421 |
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Ancient and Modern Reflections | 215 |
Chapter Ten Heraclides Criticus and the Problem of Taste | 243 |
Chapter Eleven Popular Aesthetics and Personal Art Appreciation in the Hellenistic Age | 265 |
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